From the Richmond Enquirer, 10/21/1862

ESCAPE OF A CONVICT UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH. - Some time
during the night of Sunday, the deserter, Dan Rogers, alias Riley, formerly of
the 1st Virginia Regiment, who had been sentenced to be shot on
Saturday last, but was respited until the Saturday ensuing, made his escape from
Castle Thunder. He was confined on the second floor of the building, in a front
apartment, which contains a window opening upon a balcony. Traces of his egress
show that he got out of the window, proceeded to the west end of the balcony,
and let himself down near the window of the clerk's office. A sentinel patrols
this beat day and night - sentinels, in fact, are kept constantly on guard all
around and inside of the building. How he managed to escape under these
circumstances appears to be a mystery. Several of the sentinels have been
arrested.